Look Who’s Cloaking Today
April 11, 2007 · Print This Article
When I try to visit the following url:
http://www.marketingprofs.com/5/destefano1.asp
here’s what I see:
Contrast that with what Google thinks you should see:
Naughty, naughty. Just something I found when searching Google.
Low tech cloaking… only using User Agent, not even by IP… but a step up from a javascript cloak…
Yep. And, seriously, how can Google NOT be onto that game yet?
I doubt subscription-based sites are going to last long. I don’t mind WMW because I never see the sign up page, but other sites I have to pay for I ignore completely if I see them in the SERPs.
“Yep. And, seriously, how can Google NOT be onto that game yet?”
My guess - hardware limitations. It takes more resources to have bots download two versions of a page (one scraped using google user agent/ip, and one scraped using some anon agent/ip), then compare the content of the two pages. Imagine doing that for billions of pages every few days. Considering Matt Cutts’ response to not showing all links via link: command (his answer: data storage), I never rule out technical reasons why some SEO “ideals” aren’t yet met.